Innovation spotlight
FAM+PACT
FAM+PACT was developed through years of educational experience and research to solve one of education's greatest challenges — fragmented communication and disconnected student support systems.
FAM+PACT is not simply software. It is a model for how the adults around a student coordinate: what they know, who acts, and how anyone can tell whether the action helped.
In most schools, a student's story is distributed across a gradebook, a counselor's notes, an attendance system, a translated letter, and three separate conversations. FAM+PACT assembles that story, assigns responsibility for the next step, and closes the loop with the family.
It grew directly out of Equity By Design's work on communication fragmentation and is now in pilot preparation. Pilot interest is open — we are looking for families, educators, schools, and districts to help shape the first pilots.
Core principles
What makes FAM+PACT different
One shared picture
Teachers, counselors, administrators, and families work from the same record of what a student needs and what has been tried.
Action, not notification
Every flag carries an owner and a next step, so information turns into support rather than another message in a queue.
Families as partners
Communication is two-way, multilingual by design, and respectful of how families actually receive information.
Evidence of change
Teams can see whether a support action moved anything — attendance, engagement, grades, or belonging.
How FAM+PACT connects
Where the rest of Equity By Design's work leads
FAM+PACT is the connected platform the rest of our work builds toward. Our research names the communication gaps, our frameworks and free resources give families and educators shared language and tools, and our professional learning and consulting build the habits schools need to coordinate support. FAM+PACT brings those pieces together in one place.
Step 1
Research and frameworks
Studies of communication breakdowns, plus frameworks like H.O.U.S.E.™ and F.O.C.U.S.™, define what coordinated support needs.
Step 2
Resources and learning
Free Resources, the 7-Day Back-to-School Reset™, Learn. Be. Do.™, and UnLearn ReLearn build shared habits among families and educators.
Step 3
Consulting and FAM+PACT
Partnership work puts those habits into school systems, and FAM+PACT is designed to keep them connected day to day.
Equity By Design
Research · Innovation · Implementation
UnLearn ReLearnPilot interest now open
Help shape the first FAM+PACT pilots
We are preparing for pilot implementation and seeking interested families, educators, schools, and districts to refine the model in different contexts — urban and rural, elementary and secondary, multilingual and monolingual.
Join the early pilot list to stay updated as the pilot develops and to receive pilot-community access and invitations through the Equity By Design community. Expressing interest is not a purchase, funding commitment, district contract, or guarantee of pilot placement — when FAM+PACT is ready to accept funded implementation, we will send interested participants a separate update explaining how to move forward.